I sat down in my chair and took a hard look at the weights. Having used a combination of kilogram and pound plates, I discovered my 130kg was actually 136kg. No wonder it felt so damn heavy. I was a little relieved I was able to do those weights.

I switched to speed squats and one set of ten with 180lb. On the tenth rep, I felt my groin let go. It was like somebody undid a zipper really fast.

Thursday

Back to some snatch work. My groin was very tender and my wrist very sore.

Muscle Snatch

50kg for 2 sets of 6

Speed Snatch

55kg for 2 sets of 5

75kg for 2 sets of 5

Pull and Power Snatch From the Floor

55kg for 1 pull and 3 snatches

75kg for 1 pull and 3 snatches

80kg for 1 pull and 3 snatches

Everything felt terrible. My groin was on fire and left wrist was throbbing. Finished with some snatch pulls at 120kg for two sets of five, then lowered the weight to 80kg and pulled two sets of five as high as I could.

My body was toast. I spent the afternoon in physio, hoping that they would do a better job than the last time. Didn’t seem to have any alternatives.

I am going to take some time off. I'm just not able to get any quality work in, and fooling around in the gym with light weights is incredibly aggravating.

Terry Hadlow got started in Olympic weightlifting in 1970 and is the only Canadian to have competed in senior nationals in five different decades - 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. Follow Terry's journal here to learn about his approach to training and competing.